September 12, 2008

Collision in the Cloud?

Early indications are that starting up the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) didn't actually end all life as we know it...at least not in the 4 dimensions I am familiar with (see String Theory Simplified )

But my new bud Kirill Sheynkman,
head of Cloud start-up Elastra, said (via itWorldCanada) that this sounds a lot like the early adopters of grid computing , the Web. 2.0 start-ups who want to get up and running quickly and without a
lot of capital expense, independent software vendors that want to
offer their applications in a software-as-a-service model, and
enterprises who have selected specific applications for the cloud, such
as salesforce automation or human resources.

Kirill goes on to say that “Equipment
inside the corporate data centre isn't going away anytime soon,” added
Sheynkman. Companies remain reluctant, for a variety of reasons, to
trust the cloud for their mission-critical applications. This includes
issues around licencing, compliance, interoperability, data privacy and
security.